State agents investigate police shooting in Superior

By: Associated Press//October 8, 2018//

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SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — State agents are investigating a shooting by police officers in Superior.

The police say the 19-year-old man who was shot last Friday was a suspect in a business theft. Officers shot the man after confronting him in the city’s Central Park neighborhood. It wasn’t immediately clear how many officers were involved.

Authorities say the man was conscious when he was taken to a hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. His condition has not been released.

The officers are on standard administrative leave. The state Bureau of Criminal Investigation is reviewing the case.

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